Sunday, November 26, 2006
America is now officially a Police State
A few days ago, myself and others on AMERICAblog were talking about the UCLA student who was tasered for not having his library identification card on him. The video of this attack was very disturbing to say the least. You can hear the kid trying to defend himself and after he's tasered and falls to the floor the UCLA security asses continue to taser him like he's a video game or something. My position on this case is that the security guards did have a right to ask this young man for his ID, but they didn't have the right to use force of that magnitude. They could have chosen to let the kid leave peacefully and remind him that next time he has to have his card on him, otherwise, he won't be able to use the library. Well, his skin color, I believe, added to the paranois of these guards and in the video you can see an individual pushing a table out of the doorway, because at some point, someone did push that table in front of the doorway, so this "terrorist" could not leave. Disturbing to me the amount of racial discrimination, paranoia, and unnecessary force upon a citizen of this country!
We are a Police State if this kind of force is being used on an unarmed individual in this country without good cause. Not having a library card is not a justifiable offense to be shot or tasered!
Well, the Police State has now arrived on the East coast. Yesterday, the New York police gunned down individuals of a wedding party who had just left a strip club there (article linked in the title of this post). The groom, who was scheduled to be married to his high school love that evening is now in a hospital. The police's reason for firing off 21 rounds of gunfire into the groom's car? They say they have one but no one has heard yet. Apparently, there was an argument outside the strip club amongst the wedding party and others. An argument. There were no guns in the hands of anyone, you know, just words and a bunch of beer muscles being flexed, but yet, the police decided to stop the car, pepper it with bullets, and THEN decided to check the car to see if there was a gun AFTER DOING THIS! Shooting first and asking questions later, apparently, is the first sign of a Police State.
Oh for the love of the Banana Cupcakes! Is this what our nation is coming to? Are we headed down this path that other nations have taken in which we don't approve of? Huh? Gunning down or bombing of individuals of a wedding party, hauling members of a church out onto the street and pouring kerosene on them and lighting them on fire, and storming into a new radio station and killing the members of it because you don't like their political views? Well, this shit I just mentioned is happening in Iraq right now on a daily basis, but the fact that it is happening in our own country on some levels is dispicable. It makes me want to use my blinking cursor to round up the Bush Adminstration from the past 6 years, select them, and then delete them entirely because of how they've changed our country! I don't even recognize it at this point and I hate them for that.
The neocon Bush Appeaser's reaction to stories like these? They say that us liberals have it coming to us and that we should be afraid. They like the idea of Americans being gunned down for not having an ID on them or having a groom injured on his wedding day because they like the power of it. What they don't get is that one of these days, they too will feel the brunt of Bush's Police State mentality and they'll suddenly realize that the America they once knew is gone and we liberals were right in wanting to defend her.
The End.
We are a Police State if this kind of force is being used on an unarmed individual in this country without good cause. Not having a library card is not a justifiable offense to be shot or tasered!
Well, the Police State has now arrived on the East coast. Yesterday, the New York police gunned down individuals of a wedding party who had just left a strip club there (article linked in the title of this post). The groom, who was scheduled to be married to his high school love that evening is now in a hospital. The police's reason for firing off 21 rounds of gunfire into the groom's car? They say they have one but no one has heard yet. Apparently, there was an argument outside the strip club amongst the wedding party and others. An argument. There were no guns in the hands of anyone, you know, just words and a bunch of beer muscles being flexed, but yet, the police decided to stop the car, pepper it with bullets, and THEN decided to check the car to see if there was a gun AFTER DOING THIS! Shooting first and asking questions later, apparently, is the first sign of a Police State.
Oh for the love of the Banana Cupcakes! Is this what our nation is coming to? Are we headed down this path that other nations have taken in which we don't approve of? Huh? Gunning down or bombing of individuals of a wedding party, hauling members of a church out onto the street and pouring kerosene on them and lighting them on fire, and storming into a new radio station and killing the members of it because you don't like their political views? Well, this shit I just mentioned is happening in Iraq right now on a daily basis, but the fact that it is happening in our own country on some levels is dispicable. It makes me want to use my blinking cursor to round up the Bush Adminstration from the past 6 years, select them, and then delete them entirely because of how they've changed our country! I don't even recognize it at this point and I hate them for that.
The neocon Bush Appeaser's reaction to stories like these? They say that us liberals have it coming to us and that we should be afraid. They like the idea of Americans being gunned down for not having an ID on them or having a groom injured on his wedding day because they like the power of it. What they don't get is that one of these days, they too will feel the brunt of Bush's Police State mentality and they'll suddenly realize that the America they once knew is gone and we liberals were right in wanting to defend her.
The End.
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To me, as disturbing as the obviously excessive use of force at UCLA was the continued use of tasers after the kid tells the campus cops that he will leave.
Will the school--or local authorities, or the state attorney-general--take action, or will there be a whitewash? And if there's a whitewash, will it be covered in the press?
At least the shooting in New York has been covered by the media. There was little national coverage of the UCLA incident.
As for the NY shooting, this seems like another in those periodic excessive uses of force that appear to have a racial component. It is all too reminiscent of the killing of Amadou Diallo in 1999. We might have expected the NYPD to learn from that experience; we might also have hoped that the passage of time would reduce racism in the department. Tragically, it looks--at least at this early point--as if neither is the case.
Will the school--or local authorities, or the state attorney-general--take action, or will there be a whitewash? And if there's a whitewash, will it be covered in the press?
At least the shooting in New York has been covered by the media. There was little national coverage of the UCLA incident.
As for the NY shooting, this seems like another in those periodic excessive uses of force that appear to have a racial component. It is all too reminiscent of the killing of Amadou Diallo in 1999. We might have expected the NYPD to learn from that experience; we might also have hoped that the passage of time would reduce racism in the department. Tragically, it looks--at least at this early point--as if neither is the case.
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: 11/26/2006 06:50:00 PM
: 11/26/2006 06:50:00 PM
I remember whe Diallo was gunned down. That was horrible!!!!
The groom who was shot yesterday has died. I need to update the post to reflect that. Can you imagine how his bride must feel? I don't even want to think about her pain right now!!! Terrible, just terrible.
The groom who was shot yesterday has died. I need to update the post to reflect that. Can you imagine how his bride must feel? I don't even want to think about her pain right now!!! Terrible, just terrible.
another reason i dont go to new york city.
that place is deadly.
that place is deadly.
# posted by : 11/26/2006 08:45:00 PM
: 11/26/2006 08:45:00 PM
It's not that NYC is deadly. It's that the leader of our country has made anyone who is dark skinned the enemy. It's not right. I can't stand it.
The shooters will be found innocent by the very police department they serve.
The victims will be defamed and degraded just like always happens when the rogue show their stripes.
This is Bush's America.
The victims will be defamed and degraded just like always happens when the rogue show their stripes.
This is Bush's America.
Outrages and inexcusable. These men had no weapons at all. But this is now all over the news. I can't see how they'll get away with it completely scott free. They won't get what they deserve, but they have to do something. If not there will be riots like in L.A. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
This country has been a police state since they declared war on poverty and drugs, because they attack the same people in both illegal wars the fight here against the powerless, they just quit hiding their true intentions.
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